The dogma of the mystic offices of Christ being dropped, and he standing on his genius as a moral teacher, 'tis impossible to maintain the old emphasis of his personality; and it recedes, as all persons must, before the sublimity of the moral laws.

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.

Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.